the week's top stories and the latest news egypt's opposition rejects the referendum on the new islamist based constitution as they called for yet more protests. rebels in syria come together under one military command to meanwhile more global calls to prevent the government from using chemical weapons are increasingly seen as a pretext for intervention. to see palestinians of liberated as the militant group marks twenty five years in action while israel is losing allies through its plans to build more settlements. and to live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t.

certainly good to have you with us the egypt an opposition has announced it will boycott of the referendum on the new constitution saying the document fails to represent of the whole nation that says president morsi has granted the army powers to arrest civilians in order to maintain security journalist bill true has more from cairo. the national salvation front which is the coalition of opposition forces how the press conference they express their complete rejection of the referendum of the constitution which they say enforces dictatorial tendencies and neglect of key economic and social rights that called for more protests on choose to against this document and said that basically they will not stand down how this will be responded to by the president is yet to be seen in all of the speeches by the president and over the statements he's made he's firmly back the referendum on the streets speaking to the protesters behind me as you can see gathered in front of the presidential palace they believe that his initial confusion that gratian which awarded him sweeping powers they said to me this evening was really to ensure

that the constitution was drafted and put to referendum so the president's main aim really is they say how this constitution puts in place how he reacts to the to the boycott by the opposition forces i guess in there or not is a huge boycott nationwide or whether it is not large enough to make an impact behind me the republican guards have had a tank stationed outside the presidential palace they've also built a twelve foot concrete barricades however the protesters on friday in quite extraordinary scenes century overwhelm the republican guards and pushed through in front of the presidential gates where they are now people on the streets of the republican guard essentially stepped aside and so many leading many to believe the military perhaps not backing mostly to the same extent that he is saying they are he has called for them to secure the streets there are fears the violence will escalate this bloody seems on wednesday when rival groups clashed here just at the presidential palace between pro brotherhood pro presidential supporters and protest

is leaving at least seven dead at the national salvation front themselves in this press conference said this referendum will really just simply increase division in the country and possibly to further violence as these protest groups maintain that positions so definitely the military may well we may see more tanks in the streets here in the. as this is the crisis the pain is. the u.s. has made no comment on egypt's draft constitution that is despite the document coming in for criticism for undermining basic freedoms jump political analyst as william engdahl says washington is secretly supporting the muslim brotherhood to turn egypt into an islamic dictatorship and the whole decree was a saint to begin with so loudly pressing through by the book of the proposed new constitution and then the referendum for the fifteenth of december not given the opposition and the liberal groups and the second verse and or time to really debate it openly in the country so that voters have an informed choice the coptic christian groups are threatened if the book brotherhood gets its constitution and

imposing sharia law for. other groups of muslims for example sufi their places of worship are under attack in egypt and likely will be increasingly so this is probably one of the most major urban here in intelligence projects of the last fifty years and since the us government support of the muslim brotherhood to create islamic fascist regime you want to use that term across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. syria's rebels have joined forces under one military commander which they hope will unite a diverse groups in the western backed struggle against president assad this past week the international community again voiced fears that the syrian government could deploy chemical weapons to defeat opposition fighters something damascus tonight's gonna to can looks at whether the chemical arsenal is a real threat or

a pretext for intervention. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent a an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of the syrian government's alleged plans citing secret intelligence for fox news confirms that syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the ready the syrian government flatly denied the possibility saying it would not use such weapons against its people. we would not commit suicide we feel there's a conspiracy to provide a pretext for any subsequent interventions in syria by these countries they're

doing creasing pressure on syria. the syrian government sure knows that if they use chemical weapons it would give nato and some of their arab neighbors who are itching to intervene in syria the green light to go ahead with their plans damascus itself says it would be suicidal for them to do so but with the fear and the hype building up over the use of chemical weapons against civilians in syria it seems the u.s. might be preparing grounds to jump the gun on this one the jumping the gun scenario is not new for the u.s. almost twenty years ago the bush administration confidently presented false evidence to invade iraq we have and descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails the invasion triggered a civil war that killed more than one hundred thousand innocent iraqis and years later all washington had to say about this was the president thought it was correct congress thought it was worth it of course i regret that it turned out a lot of it was wrong in the run up to the iraq invasion the us media was

instrumental in selling the case to the public the congress never had any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction all came from tony blair. bush and congress who writes now that the u.s. has drawn a red line on syria it has made it clear it's ready to take action but how i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of. a credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we are certainly planning to. take action if that eventuality were to occur to american warships are already near the syrian coast with some. one thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american

german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's border with syria meaning hundreds more u.s. and european troops will be deployed to the frontier nato says deploying patriot missiles along syria's borders is a defensive step to prevent syria from attacking turkey i don't think there's any requirement whatsoever for patriot batteries on the ground in turkey again the patriot missiles are designed to really protect primarily against incoming theater ballistic missiles or aircraft the syrians are not going to attack the turks the turks of the most powerful military establishment in the region the largest army in nato and intervention in syria will be as bad if not worse than what we experienced in iraq the pentagon said they would need seventy five thousand troops to secure syria's weapons of mass destruction the question on everyone's mind is are they seriously considering that kind of a mess of intervention because that could mean another you rock coming soon and invasion that could be followed by years of bloody civil war in washington i'm

going to check on. syria not political activist dr dollars says if the international community is worried about a chemical attack in syria it should look to the rebels the government. recently there have been some troubling reviews that we have seen on you tube and some other reports of of the hardest groups in northern syria assessing some chemical materials with the name of. a turkish company on them and the background there was a music playing with this chance it's very worrying they were conducting some experiments on the rabbit so it's difficult to verify but if it is not a bluff then this is a this is very very worrying because judging by the effect of this gas it is a convulsing so it's a it's a it's so nerve agent and this is a dangerous development perhaps if you look also at the fact that the united states

has recently started listing parts of the syrian armed opposition all of the armed opposition in syria as terrorists organizations that say something that is probably aware that their part of the of the armed opposition in syria and probably the seen most powerful part of the armed opposition who are the most are front probably aren't possession of such materials and probably are planning to use them as they threatened so i think the danger is that the the west is aware of such materials in syria but at the same time it's going to be used against the syrian government as a pretext for intervention and britain is now facing five more years of austerity. the treasury chief insists that cutbacks will help the country struggling economy find out the details later this hour. also later in the program up for you a massive balance to liberate palestinian land to enter by henschel israel refuses to abandon it and settlement construction. new cares announced

an extension to its program of cuts meaning the country will endure austerity until two thousand and eighteen pensions will be raided even more with those on welfare likely to suffer as well r.t. sephora reports from london. well everyone now madly picking their way through the facts and figures and while was there a lot of figures one thing was very very clear and that's that the u.k. is set to face even more austerity no what those figures showed us was that the u.k. economy is going to shrink by not point one percent by the end of twenty twelve now it sounds like a small amount but of course no sign of that all important in fact what we're seeing is that borrowing has gone up the debt has risen and fallen and most crucially i think is probably the fact that the government have missed the reduction target so we're now facing an extended austerity program it's going to

take it's right away three to twenty eighteenth's a pretty gloomy outlook and this is what we were expecting a bit of course that's going to really not be more millions of families all across the again to one thing here and of course this is really going to bring in real terms to speak to us more about this horse and statement by the chancellor today i'm joined by a labor m.p. and the public i say public health minister thank you for joining us so the british economy is slowly healing according to chancellor george osborne what was your reaction to well i thought that was a very silly statement the truth is every prophecy every target of. he has failed he has not met his targets he is not going to deal with the deficit as he said the road growth will grow and also there's going to be a huge car made in benefits pavement to some of the poorest people in the country

are going to suffer the most i was resolved to do so and those who are into this will start to know when it's because we saw that just one percent for the benefit of the welfare bill and that's less than inflation you know that's really going to hit a huge no. it's about forty seven billion pounds so it will be cut from the benefits bill and we're talking about farmers is a really on the bread line anyway even losing ten twenty pounds a week is a good i mean it's a very cold day outside and it's a very cold prospect for britain's poor because they are going to bear the brunt of the austerity course by britons by the whole school doesn't know what he's doing thank you very much for telling us that also say there is a cause for concern as he said i don't pay anything the thing is that one thing cutting through all they statistics and that's the case is going to be said to have to place itself they even talk because even all of. the greek prime minister is on

a mission to secure more support and more financing from germany he is visiting the wealthy and conservative region of bavaria to convince leaders there athens is worth the cash his visit comes a week after creditors agreed to prop greece up with another forty four billion euro's attorney george touched regardless believes real solutions are still a long way off so most guys me. listen you soon. but unfortunately germany used. to be viewed as an easy to. control it's just that you go to example even to the. national military fund. but of course it's easy for this is mature too so such a policy. experience so. simple are you serious usually

more and more stuff in for people with. and of course we always have more for you on our website r.t. dot com. there for you now trouble ahead as u.k. charities become the latest victims of the economic crisis find out what they fear in two thousand and thirteen. and check out the new mercedes benedict the sixteenth the pope's taken delivery of his new high tech eco friendly wheels including a throne for comfortable cruising of course on the grounds. the hamas leadership has a valid will not give up an inch of palestinian territories the political leader of hamas khaled mashal who runs the militant group from qatar is in the last day of his historic trip to gaza in a speech labeled as extremist by israel he slammed it for occupation of the palestinian lands refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the jewish state that's after israel has announced earlier this week that it will keep on building new

settlements which has been denounced by the international community middle east expert morelock says israel has even soured relations with one of its allies germany we really made it very clear that we are totally against the continuing new settlements in the west bank and in jerusalem because this will definitely make the two state solution impossible it because if this building so going on the west bank will be split into the access to jerusalem will not be possible for the palestinians any more reaction by mr netanyahu and others were very strong and unusually undiplomatic you could say just before his visit to berlin condemning the stand of germany and the fact that the foreign minister lieberman with some lame excuses did not come to berlin to meet his counterpart our foreign minister rest of ela also shows that at the moment there are lots of tensions among the

politicians in germany and in israel. israel exports tons of fruit and vegetables cosmetics and other goods to the e.u. every year but despite being labeled as made in israel some products do not originate from there many are produced in settlements on occupied territories prompting calls to ban such exports or at least enforce more accurate labeling artie's peter all over investigates. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims e.u. imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned

out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in illegal settlements your see farms this land is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. because i was told here you can. see my circle where i was told i could if tomorrow the state of israel tells me it's time to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i got there was nothing if you. live in denmark and the united kingdom goods coming from settlements in the west bank already has to be marked differently to denote that it's not from israel the collective n.g.o.s want to see this implemented europe wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from. are

you sure this comes from spain. is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even even though you think they get jordan they really checkpoints keep them at the checkpoints for days and. the sun. and then you can keep your vegetables anymore those behind the report into trade between the settlements in europe say they aren't trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel itself we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. neagle israeli products which should be watched by european citizens as much as they want course they should and second products which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not be.

under some other world news now making headlines for this hour. hundreds of people have marched through the norwegian capital in protest against of easy you getting the nobel peace prize the demonstrators accuse brussels of being on democratic they also criticize member states of maintaining expensive military forces while their populations suffer austerity cuts the rally took place ahead of the prize giving ceremony in austin. the southern philippines have been hit by a five point six magnitude earthquake and there were no immediate reports of casualties following the tremors this comes less than a week after a deadly typhoon hit the country that storm claimed the lives of more than six hundred people and left nearly four hundred thousand homeless while almost a thousand more are still missing. at least seven people including four children have died in a midair collision between two small planes over germany the aircraft crashed into

nearby fields about four hundred meters apart authorities have not released of the names of the victims and have launched an investigation into the incident. and thousands of americans say they want to break away from washington and residents across the land have signed internet petitions saying they don't want to be part of the united states anymore or an important as the story. tonight. for two hundred years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. with tests of perfecting of art your moves forward. for weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union

a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina. were many like michael toggle. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent ones the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the debt this country has with the growing disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's through the lesson of history big empires always collapse on their own weight secession supporters like bernard first some say washington's weight of growing debt endless wars government intrusion and a broken immigration system has become a bipartisan destructive force it's beyond reform you can't reform that federal government whether it's the republicans in charge or obama basically the republicans are just as bad as far as we're concerned they're corrupt and are out

of touch in southern former confederate states like north carolina culture and social issues play a big role for those like harold cruz who believes the u.s. is too big and thus destined to fail and the south. are different country already and the united states we simply need our own government we have different values different belief systems critics have dismissed secessionists as disgruntled voters angry over president obama's second term however in the two thousand and eight presidential election obama became the first democrat in more than thirty years to win north carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their own. the average american the things they believe in they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more

the white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. signatories at least seven states fit that category that we used to be on the interstate driving along at thirty five miles an hour by ourselves with secession as a goal and now we're being passed on both sides and lanes by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or ten years ago and now we're mainstream. a mainstream movement to move apart marina porton i r r t. china has warned india against pursuing oil exploration in the disputed south china sea this after new delhi threatened to send warships to the resource rich area to protect its interests but as you got a piece going off explains a conflict between the two nations could see both lose out. as china and india rise economically their military muscles are growing as well both need energy to keep

that kind of growth going and that may be putting the two asian giants on a collision course because of the mess that nationalism the indian government cannot afford to be seem to be weak in dealing with china obviously a higher power with government. over two hundred billion barrels of oil and large amounts of natural gas that's more than the vast majority of the world's energy rich nations have all hidden under the south china sea china claims most of the territory for itself but india has also managed to get access by buying a stake in a vietnamese gas field shortly after her accuse chinese boat of sandwich dodging exploration india warned it's ready to use force to defend its interests hopefully as i said the trip not to lead to a longer term conflict but you know it's it's not really inevitable because both these countries now large ambitions of becoming global actors and players both

china and india have been pumping billions of u.s. dollars into their armies and navies holding drills on a regular basis and beijing has also announced its police will soon start to board and inspect foreign vessels so have vast oil reserves in the south china sea are just too big of a cash for now they're trying out working here to pass out what i really want a proper it gets when the true economic power houses says it may be a game that neither can win the two asian giants can't afford any weaknesses and that would make it easier for other countries to take a bite of the vast resources the u.s. has long been increasing its economic and military presence in the region this ng is there west strike to pick this extension by built in the china in terms of the last. four balls that the last thing that they want is a military clash so if the two eastern powerhouses can share nicely they catch me

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